Evolutionary and molecular analyses of the Borrelia bdr super gene family: Delineation of distinct sub-families and demonstration of the genus wide conservation of putative functional domains, structural properties and repeat motifs

Microbial Pathogenesis

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 89-105

  Carlyon, Jason F ^a   Roberts, David M ^a   Marconi, Richard T ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

bdr; Borrelia; Lyme disease; Phosphorylation; Relapsing fever

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BORRELIA; BORRELIA INFECTION; BORRELIA TURICATAE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EVOLUTION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LYME DISEASE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA HERMSII; BORRELIA TURICATAE; SPIROCHAETALES;

EID: 0033831386     PISSN: 08824010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpat.1999.0326     Document Type: Article

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